For those of you that think the sport of boxing isn’t brutal enough, it seems that in 1937 someone tried to add fireworks to the mix. Two boxers fought each other while connected to pyrotechnic dummies which exploded on impact.

In London, two fellows donned asbestos suits and feigned a boxing match while their pyrotechnic doppelgangers exploded along side them, like some sort of spontaneously combusting conjoined twins.